#sigh

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#delays #first #love #love at first sight #second

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight. ↗

— John Barton

#combined #draft #elements #experiment #first

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey. ↗

— Martha Beck

#created #enjoying #forward #horror #journey

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#condition #creature #expression #heartless #once

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. ↗

— William Bernbach

#communicator #concerned #gets #his #how

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful. ↗

— Joe Biden

#barack #barack obama #been #candidate #democratic

Insecurity kills all that is beautiful. ↗

— Shaun Morgan

#inspirational #beauty

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#insightful #poignant #life

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#day #even #future #i #me